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- noun especially in plural Either of a pair of protective
leather gaiters on asaddle - noun
gambade (leaping movement)
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Examples
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We dance here in Apia a most fearful and wonderful quadrille, I don’t know where the devil they fished it from; but it is rackety and prancing and embraceatory beyond words; perhaps it is best defined in Haggard’s expression of a gambado.
Vailima Letters 2005
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He in whose favour the abduction is to be made was seen going out the same day spangled and smart, contrary to his usual fashion, making a gambado towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye with four carriages and four to meet the nymph. "
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1610a John Lothrop Motley 1845
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He in whose favour the abduction is to be made was seen going out the same day spangled and smart, contrary to his usual fashion, making a gambado towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye with four carriages and four to meet the nymph. "
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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He in whose favour the abduction is to be made was seen going out the same day spangled and smart, contrary to his usual fashion, making a gambado towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye with four carriages and four to meet the nymph. "
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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He in whose favour the abduction is to be made was seen going out the same day spangled and smart, contrary to his usual fashion, making a gambado towards Saint-Germain-en-Laye with four carriages and four to meet the nymph. "
Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623) John Lothrop Motley 1845
sionnach commented on the word gambado
From "The Mikado", end of Act I, Katisha
In vain you interrupt with this tornado!
He is the only son of your -
I'll spoil Your gay gambado!
He is the son of your -
October 12, 2007
whichbe commented on the word gambado
A capering, leaping or gamboling movement. (From WordCraft)
May 20, 2008